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Jackie Ormes (August 1, 1911 – December 26, 1985) was an American cartoonist. She is known as the first African-American woman cartoonist and creator of the Torchy Brown comic strip and the Patty-Jo 'n' Ginger panel .
Jackie Ormes – Torchy Brown, Patty-Jo 'n' Ginger; Ramone Patenaude, aka Pat [72] Albertine Randall – The Dumbunnies [73] Lily Renée, aka Reney (Lily Renée Wilhelms Peters and Lily Renée Phlllips) – worked for Fiction House and St. John Publications; Ruth Roche – writer of Phantom Lady (Fox Comics) Helene Rother – Jimmy Jupiter [74]
The Ormes Society was founded in 2007 by artist Cheryl Lynn Eaton. [1] Eaton was upset by the comic book industry's lack of diversity and wanted to help support black women and fans. [2] She named the organization after Jackie Ormes, a pioneer African-American comic illustrator and America’s first black female professional cartoonist. [3]
Jackie Ormes was the first nationally syndicated female black cartoonist with her series Torchy Brown, created in 1937 as a humoristic adventure strip lasting for three years, and picked up again in 1950 as Torchy Brown's Heartbeats, basically revamped as a black version of Brenda Starr, Reporter, with the young black eponymous character ...
Jackie Ormes - (Torchy Brown, Patty-Jo 'n' Ginger) John Ostrander; Richard F. Outcault - (The Yellow Kid, Buster Brown) Bruce Ozella - (continued Popeye) P.
Here’s a nostalgic look at classic cartoons that once ruled the airwaves. From classics in the 1950s and '60s to more recent favorites from the 1980s and '90s, these toons are sure to bring back ...
We are excited to present some of Lynn Hsu's one-panel cartoons that we’re sure you’ll love!Lynn is a cartoonist for The New Yorker among many others like Alta Journal, Air Mail, F&SF, and The ...
[51] [53] Jackie Ormes was the first African American women cartoonist to be published. In 1937 she created one of the first female-led comic strips called Torchy Brown from Dixie to Harlem for the Pittsburgh Courier, a Black newspaper. Ormes depicted the Black women in her comics after herself and the women around her.